ELECTION 2014

[Retardobot]

Party vote went to Greens in the end.

[Bounty Hunter]

LET THE GAMES, BEGIN!

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/election-results-2014

[Tiwaking!]

LET THE GAMES, BEGIN!

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/election-results-2014

Why wont you just DIE A.C.T party?

Why wont you just die?!

[Arnifix]

LET THE GAMES, BEGIN!

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/election-results-2014

Why wont you just DIE A.C.T party?

Why wont you just die?!

Because Ayn Rand libertarian idiots.

[Pyromanik]

And so then nothing changed.

[Tiwaking!]

National trumped everyone in the South. Probably because they withdrew that Bill English scumbag
Majority:   13,583
http://www.electionresults.govt.nz/electorate-6.html
ASHTON, Lachie   CNSP   1,316
BARCLAY, Todd   NAT   19,686
BARKLEY, Karl   NZIC   159
CRAIG, Liz   LAB   6,103
GOLDSMITH, Rachael   GP   1,935
JOBSIS, Jason   NZDSC   77
NICOLSON, Don   ACT   431
VEINT, James   BAN   817

And so then nothing changed.

Of course not. I was expecting a National government again

I just want A.C.T leave for good. I also want Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party to leave for good too

[Pyromanik]

And so then nothing changed.

Of course not. I was expecting a National government again

As was I, I gues.

I think it'd be really great if they weren't, but realistically it is what I expect.

Not that it makes all that much difference. Despite all the shit slinging they do actually get some shit done, they're just fucking TERRIBLE communicators. And none of the other options are really any much better.

[Retardobot]

And none of the other options are really any much better.

How to succinctly describe politics.

[Tiwaking!]

And none of the other options are really any much better.

How to succinctly describe politics.

Well well. Not exactly. Check out Ohairu - Belmont, home of the United Future Party
http://www.electionresults.govt.nz/electorate-36.html
Results Counted:   51 of 60 (85.0%)
Majority:   786
ANDERSEN, Virginia   LAB   9,574
DUNNE, Peter   UFNZ   10,360

That is getting close enough for a recount

edit: Bah. Looks like Peter Dunne is going back to Parliament again

[Tiwaking!]

National's Maggie Barry just took out Aucklands North Shore by 14,631 votes
National are kicking arse everywhere
edit: Wait, what is going on here? By the looks of the electoral results the Maori Party are heading straight to the Dole Queue

[Bounty Hunter]

I want to read KDC's acceptance speech.

[Tiwaking!]

National just won Tauranga, but I dont get it:

BRIDGES, Simon (NAT)  18,967 Majority: 13,526
MITCHELL, Clayton NZF 5,441

Why didnt Winston Peters stand in his own electorate?

Also: The only Maori Party member looks to be for Waiariki
Results Counted:   207 of 216 (95.8%)
FLAVELL, Te Ururoa James (MAOR) Majority:   2,922

[Tiwaking!]

And so then nothing changed.

NOT AGAIN

Results Counted:   46 of 53 (86.8%)
Leading Candidate:   SEYMOUR, David (ACT)       Majority:   4,158

Dammit Epsom! If you like A.C.T so much, why dont you just marry it

[Tiwaking!]

Wait, what has Hone been up to?

Apparently he will be off to the unemployment booth too!

Election Results -- Te Tai Tokerau
Results Counted:   347 of 368 (94.3%)
Leading Candidate:   DAVIS, Kelvin (LAB)       Majority:   1,091
DAVIS, Kelvin   LAB   7,863
HARAWIRA, Hone   MANA   6,772

Who would have known New Zealanders happily tolerate lying politicians

[Pyromanik]

You know they're lying when their lips move.
World wide phenomenan.

[Tiwaking!]

So the results are:

Less people voted this year
National win again and gained two seats = 61
Labour lost two seats = 32
Green  lost one seat = 11 13
Winston First gained three seats = 11
Maori Party got massacred and have only two seats = 2

Very surprising to see the Maori electorates go back to Labour. I mean, all of their best MP's have retired but still, you would think that someone competent would remain in their party
edit: Whoops. Greens lost one seat to have a total of 13

[Bounty Hunter]

Less people voted this year

This is interesting, and disappointing.

The usual story is that the left wont vote for a crap left, or the right, so they don't vote at all right?

I also thought the greens would have been stronger.

[toofast]

National really cleaned up in the party votes across the electorates. Looks like they won pretty much everything except south auckland (no surprises), and Dunedin (and that was a 28 vote win).  I kinda knew national would win again, but I am surprised that they won so comfortably. Also no fucking clue why epsom keeps voting ACT.

I voted for the legalise weed party as they seem to be the only party that is honest about what they're going to do.

Wasted vote really.

[Kayne]

I voted for the legalise weed party as they seem to be the only party that is honest about what they're going to do.

Wasted vote really.

Is joke.

I told my parents that I voted for national but I actually did NZ first.

Still no shits given for politics so I'm not fussed. I actually did "eenie - meenie - miny - mo" for my vote.

[Tiwaking!]

Also no fucking clue why epsom keeps voting ACT.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11328860

"I think that if I had been the leader and the Epsom candidate we would have basically been saying that Act has no more ambition than to win Epsom - and that isn't true - we want to be a major force in New Zealand politics.

Yes and if wishes were ponies then New Zealand would be more stable

I told my parents that I voted for national but I actually did NZ first.

Funny story time
One of the foreign students asked me what topics were considered rude to ask people in New Zealand. The consensus is: Age, Weight, Salary, and Politics.

Why Politics?

One lady said she was voting Winston First. The immediate response is:
"IS SHE OLD?!?!"

Turns out she was

[Tiwaking!]

Less people voted this year

This is interesting, and disappointing.

The usual story is that the left wont vote for a crap left, or the right, so they don't vote at all right?

I also thought the greens would have been stronger.

Lessons learned from this Election:

Dont rely on young people - They're too lazy and stupid to bother voting
Dont rely on old people - at least not as long as Winston Peters is still around
Dont rely on Maori people - they couldnt go back to Labour fast enough
Dont rely on Policies - no one bothers reading them
Dont attack politicians during Elections - it is a waste of time. People are too lazy/stupid to change their minds
Always rely on crazy white people - Nothing will get you into parliament faster than being Conservative
Always pirate your campaign music - Bonus points if you steal from litigious American Rappers

Thusly, if you want to start a Political Party in New Zealand:
Be Conservative
Continuously Attack politicians up to four months before elections
Steal campaign music from Kanye West
Get Germans to hate you
Promise nothing
Spread fear and/or hate

[Gutty]

you forgot to add eminem to the campaign music bit lol

[Pyromanik]

I also thought the greens would have been stronger.

As did I.

I think they still have a lot of stigmatism around them though thier kinda less than political origins.
And by that I mean all the older folk still think they're shit because they were a bunch of smelly hippies trying to legalise pot rather than run a country.
They've grown up, but I too am a bit surprised that that is not relected better in the votes.

[Lias]

I think they still have a lot of stigmatism around them though thier kinda less than political origins.
And by that I mean all the older folk still think they're shit because they were a bunch of smelly hippies trying to legalise pot rather than run a country.
They've grown up, but I too am a bit surprised that that is not relected better in the votes.

I don't think it's the pot, as much as it's the completely living in fairytale world lalaland. It's a party dominated by ultra left zealots, with a world view on things that quite frankly scares the crap out of middle class New Zealand nearly as much as Mana.

Quite apart from all the political correctness and social justice garbage, they have absolutely no fucking idea how to keep the country economically stable. It's going to take them a decade or two to live down Russell Norman's "let's print money" quantitative easing  fiasco.

[Tiwaking!]

I also thought the greens would have been stronger.

As did I.

I think they still have a lot of stigmatism around them though thier kinda less than political origins.
And by that I mean all the older folk still think they're shit because they were a bunch of smelly hippies trying to legalise pot rather than run a country.

Bwahahahaha!
Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party   8,539    0.41%
United Future         4,533    0.22%
Ban1080         4,368    0.21%
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/10526936/United-Future-party-vote-smoked

United Future party vote smoked

In this election United Future won just 0.22 per cent of the overall party vote (4533 party votes) while the ALCP polled 0.41 per cent (8539) of the overall party vote.

Asked whether United Future needed a shot in the arm after being outpolled by the aspiring dope smokers Dunne, 60, said the ALCP's party vote success could have been a reaction to the Government's decision to remove synthetic drugs from public sale earlier this year.

edit: The comment section of that article is hilarious

smith512711 hours ago
United no future

Toon Army13 hours ago
The worst thing is that Dunne will most likely end up as a Cabinet Minister. A Cabinet Minister whose party is rejected by more than 99% of the electorate

Tomo13 hours ago
It's interesting that PD personally got nearly 3 times as many votes as his party. Of the people in the constituency who did vote for him, at least 60% didn't vote United Future.
I have no idea what that says about the people who voted for him.

tbaytaniwha15 hours ago
What a pathetic excuse from Dunne, re the legalise cannabis party out polling him. It took an endorsement from the priminister for him to scrape past a no name rival who doesn't even live in the electorate.